Binaural recording at Spa!

Merlin5 · 7 Feb 2015 at 06:53

Holy crap. Put your headphones on, (the best ones you have) crank the volume up as loud as you dare (I'm using Sennheiser 580s and a portable headphone amp from my laptop) and listen. It will put you right there at the trackside. This is short and sweet but..oh yeah!

deuse · 7 Feb 2015 at 07:37

Great find

Oh how I miss that sound

Shimmy · 7 Feb 2015 at 10:04

Eargasm

Thanks for sharing, memories of being at Spa years ago

NoNameNoNumber · 7 Feb 2015 at 10:17

Phwoar goosebumps!

robbiemc · 7 Feb 2015 at 10:42

Are these the V8s or V10s? Sounds good either way

MooMoo444 · 7 Feb 2015 at 10:51

Noisy

utajoker · 7 Feb 2015 at 15:11

awesome.

Skeeter · 7 Feb 2015 at 15:16

MooMoo444 said:
Noisy

While I think the V6s are a good move in terms of technology, the engine note is far more complex and interesting, and the reduced volume makes for a far more enjoyable trackside experience during the race, hearing 24 NA V8s scream and echo through the Belgium forest in an enveloping bombardment of noise, vibration and emotion is an experience I will keep with me forever.

Merlin5 · 7 Feb 2015 at 15:16

Dat backfire.

UTmaniac · 7 Feb 2015 at 15:50

Nice!

I take it was not from 2014, far too loud.

ShakenNstirred · 7 Feb 2015 at 20:55

I ran it though my Yamaha THR10 stereo practice amp
made the hairs on back of the neck stand up lol

Stinky · 7 Feb 2015 at 22:11

ahhhh can't wait to get there this summer

this_is_gav · 8 Feb 2015 at 09:08

The recent V8s were just loud and nothing else - no soul or character. Ferrari spend a day a year taking a collection of old F1 cars to Spa and the V8 era ones just bore me.

I do wish the current V6s were a touch louder, but they're so much more interesting. In testing they remind me of the 80s turbos, and I love the angry note of the Honda.

TV somehow hasn't managed to do the new engines justice - they all sound pretty lifeless and samey, perhaps lost in the vast lands of Tilke. But I still easily prefer them over the V8s.

Skeeter · 8 Feb 2015 at 11:38

The TV audio last year was appauling. They realized quite early on that the sound recording kit they had wasn't picking the noise up properly, but rather than bother to fix it they just turned the volume up a bit.

In real life the V6s chirp and whistle and bark and woosh and all sorts of interesting noises. There's also real differences between the different engines. On TV they just fart.

The_Abyss · 8 Feb 2015 at 14:03

And the V6s are really good now this year. Much louder but still quiet enough to hear all the mechanical and tyre noise

smr · 8 Feb 2015 at 14:17

this_is_gav said:
The recent V8s were just loud and nothing else - no soul or character. Ferrari spend a day a year taking a collection of old F1 cars to Spa and the V8 era ones just bore me.

I do wish the current V6s were a touch louder, but they're so much more interesting. In testing they remind me of the 80s turbos, and I love the angry note of the Honda.

TV somehow hasn't managed to do the new engines justice - they all sound pretty lifeless and samey, perhaps lost in the vast lands of Tilke. But I still easily prefer them over the V8s.

I disagree about the V8s lacking soul, they sounded beautiful as I was stood at the bottom of Eau Rouge listening to them roar through the forest

Twirlywoos · 12 Feb 2015 at 15:42

amazing

benhaha85 · 12 Feb 2015 at 15:53

That is awesome. Even though it's just sound my heartbeat rose when the car went past. Beautiful.

deuse · 12 Feb 2015 at 16:11

Stinky said:
ahhhh can't wait to get there this summer

You got a time machine to go back to the GREAT V6\V10\12 days?
Or are you talking about the new Fart Machines?

Stinky · 12 Feb 2015 at 17:51

deuse said:
You got a time machine to go back to the GREAT V6\V10\12 days?
Or are you talking about the new Fart Machines?

just the atmosphere in general haha